Chap. 39.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2773-a of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the application of Sections 2773-a to 2773-n, both inclusive, of the
Code of Virginia, constituting a portion of Chapter 109-A of the said Code,
relating to certain optional forms of county organization and government, so as
to make such sections, subject to approval of a majority of the qualified voters
of such county, applicable to any county having less than sixty square miles of
high land or land above low water line or mark. [SB 11]

Approved February 14, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-seven hundred and seventy-three-a of the Code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2773-a. Subject to the election hereinafter provided, the
provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any county having a
population of five hundred inhabitants or more to the square mile,
as shown by the last United States census, and to any county in
Virginia having less than sixty square miles of high land. Subject to
the approval of a majority of the qualified voters of any such county
who vote thereon, either of the two forms of the county organization
and government provided in this chapter may be adopted. For the
purpose of this section, the term ‘‘high land’’ in any county means
the land therein above the low water line or mark of waters within
and adjacent to the boundaries of such county.